Space Junk: A nightmare for astronauts, revealed by studies
Scientists have discovered that someone may actually be killed by space debris.
Even though the chances of somebody getting killed by space junk don’t seem real, there are high chances that this casualty might happen. Even if no human being has ever died from space debris, there have been instances where people have gotten injured or some residential properties have been damaged.
Scientists have also mentioned that it is high time we start taking this seriously. A recent study shows within the next 10 years a casualty might happen from space debris.
According to a new study, the next piece of space junk that may fall could cause very real mortality. Research by Michael Byers has proven that the risk of space debris falling on a very populated area of Earth might take place in a decade.
When a rocket launches into space, most of it will start dropping parts it no longer requires, which fall back to Earth in a very uncontrollable way which may cause severe damage. There are over 128 million pieces of debris size smaller than 1 cm and approximately 9,00,000 pieces varying from 1-10 cm. The largest one that is above 10 cm has a count of 34,000 debris. Earlier the abandoned parts hurting humans were negligible but since rocket launches are increasing the case might be different now. 135 rocket launches took place in the year 2021.
Recently, Russia blew up one of its satellites leaving a cloud of debris in space threatening the International space station and other vital satellites privately funded by SpaceX, an orbital launch system that can be reused numerous times, similar to the reusability of aircraft, is being developed.
SpaceX has been working on technologies that will enable complete and quick reusability of space launch rockets for a very long time.
